ROESLERSTAMMIIDAE, TINEOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Dianne Clarke,
Maleny, Queensland)
The adult moths of this species have brown forewings, each crossed by two white zigzag lines, and with a white area at the tornus, and a broad white line along the costa The hindwings are brown. The head and prothorax are white. The antennae are as long as the forewings. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.
The species occurs in Australia in
Further reading :
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,
Volume 21, 1889, pp. 166-167, No. 18.
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(written 25 March 2019, updated 8 July 2021)